It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.
